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Image: Sidney Nolan, Riverbend, 1964-65 (install). On loan from the ANU Art Collection
Sidney Nolan’s Riverbend, 1964-65 is a monumental nine panel work showing Ned Kelly eluding police within a snaking Australian river landscape.
Made during the artist’s ANU Fellowship in 1964-65, the work is usually on display in the Drill Hall Gallery at the Australian National University.
This new presentation is a rare opportunity to see the work in dialogue with CMAG’s Nolan Collection, in particular Kelly in Bush, 1945. The pairing of the works – made just under 20 years apart invites consideration of Nolan’s longstanding engagement with the Kelly myth and articulations of the Australian landscape.
Image: Sidney Nolan, Riverbend, 1964-65 (install). On loan from the ANU Art Collection
The Nolan Collection is an iconic group of paintings from 1945 to 1953 by Sidney Nolan that the artist gifted to the nation in 1974
In August 1978, Sidney Nolan created a series of 31 crayon pastel drawings based on the events of Marcus Clarke’s 1874 convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.
A discussion about the changing perceptions and understandings of Australia's convict past and how museums deal with this confronting history.
The Young Nolan Project is a new initiative where an individual school is invited to work on an extended program and present their resulting art to the public